China and Britain near sign of joint note amid envoy talks
Foreign envoys except Sir Ernest Mason Fox, British minister, have received instructions backing the joint note at Pekin. A further meeting is planned, with imperial conditions and safety guarantees discussed. The plan includes relocating legation buildings within a guarded square and preserving key nations’ houses. The Chinese plenipotentiaries will receive the formal agreement on reparation for the Boxer outrages, with final settlement negotiations to follow after Chinese consideration. The Russian view questions who deserves credit for the entente amid mixed commentary in St Petersburg.
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Kwang Ry
Tung Fu Hsiang
Britiah
Rossing
Tartar City
Hones
Hoe Farston Elle
Washington
Hee
Pekin
Conger
State Department
China
St Petersburg
Noyoe Vreniya
de. Morrizon
London ‘Times
Amertes
Ragland
McKinley
Opiphankind
Ameria
Journal
Failing Assaults and Captures in Luzon Engagement
A detachment of the Forty-seventh United States Volunteer Infantry near Pandap on Luzon coast anchored to land and was fired on by sixty riflemen. After a brief engagement the anchor was cut and the unit sailed for Cataduanes with two killed and two wounded. Captain Ricyard oe Bilis of the Thirty-third toluureerh infantry captured enemy arms and equipment at Victoria while other detachments secured Major Garlon and officers and destroyed camps. General MacArthur approved death sentences for several convicted of murder arson and pillage. in other cases he commuted to imprisonment. In New York officials report that a government cotton crop report was offered to brokers in advance prompting federal investigation led by cotton exchange president Samuel T Hubbard.
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Forty-seventh
United States Volunteer Infantry
Colinduanes
Luzon
Pandap
Cataduanes
Ricyard Oe Bilis
Toluureerh Infantry
Minuniains
Krag
Manser
Remington
Victoria
Pyugth Infantry
Garlon
Tt ‘Snk
Pasay
Ugiued
Americana
MacArthur
New York
Veemu
Frank B. Guest
Cotton Commission
Samuel T. Hubbard
Cotton Exchange
Death of Mrs. Mary Melwan McLean at home
Mary Melwan McLean mother of John R. McLean dies at her residence Sunday morning after Friday illness. Present at her bedside were her daughters Mrs Dewey and Mrs Enslow, Rear Admiral Ludlow’s wife, her son John R. McLean, and Admiral Dewey.
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Washington
Mary Melwan
John
Ty McLean
Cneinmath
Enquirer
McLean
Mre Dewey
Mrs. Enslow
Ludlow
John R. McLean
Admiral Dewey
Chicago and Northwestern football injuries noted in census
A December census at the University of Chicago and Northwestern shows 12 serious or painful injuries at Chicago during the brief football season and several injuries at Northwestern, ranging from ruptured veins to torn ligaments. Other dispatches report Anglo German Portuguese war concerns, Roberts arrival plans in London, a Wattle Exchange saloon shooting in Mountain View, and a Southern railway freight wreck with deaths near Sanford Tennessee.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Northwestern
Northwestern 1c
London
Bee
Hague
Albem
Java
Ttta
Shutel
England
Cabinet Council
Senate set to debate Hay-Pauncefote and ship subsidy
Washington reports the senate will dedicate the week to the Hay Pauncefote treaty and the ship subsidy bill with three or four speeches expected against the subsidy. The canal bill remains pending under Morgan, and voting timing hinges on the fortifications amendment. Adjournment may be delayed by the centennial government celebration.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Morgan
Special Interests Demand Consideration In the Howse
Washington December 10 special interests push for reduction of war taxes as House routines focus on legislative and executive appropriations. Beer tax foes seek to win a $0.25 per barrel cut while banks push retention of the bank checks tax to preserve revenue, aiming to offset losses with broader support and committee plans.
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Howse
Washington
Shine
Extradition Case Tests U S Powers Over Cuba
In Havana Neely faces extradition for alleged embezzlement of Cuban postal funds totaling 67000 dollars while the New York arrest ties to his role as financial agent of the Cuban posts. Circuit Judge Lacombe finds probable cause and Denies bail as habeas corpus challenges the extradition statute as unconstitutional. The dispute hinges on U S Cuban relations and the reach of presidential authority over newly acquired territories. The second item notes Yokohama journalists launching an anti cruelty drive reacting to European and American press coverage of Russian and French wartime outrages, contrasted with Western moral rebukes.
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Henkel
United States
C. F. W. Neely
Havana
New York
Department of Posts
Lacombe
Cuba
Treaty of Parly
Yokohama
Amur
Disappearance of Tewksbery and Mexican Bold Ventures
New York reports stock broker Lewis G. Tewksbery vanished from his city office on June 20. He allegedly fled with creditors’ funds around $500,000 to Mexico where he lives in opulence under an assumed name with high officials’ friendship. He leased a storefront opposite the Banca Americana in Mexico City’s Calle de San Francisco within 48 hours of disappearing. Meanwhile Santa Fe railway telegraphers threaten a general strike involving several unions, risking major rail freight and passenger service from Chicago to the Pacific and Gulf. In Erie, Pennsylvania, the barge Charles Foster sank in a gale, with 1 to 100 feet of water where it wrecked, 10 miles offshore. a dozen or more persons were drowned and the vessel valued at $19,000.
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New York
Lewis G. Tewksbery
Tian
Inut
Mexico
Republic of Mexico
Tewksbery
Banca Americana
Calle de San Francenco
City of Mexico
Kansas
Cary
Santa Fe
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Order of Railway Conductors
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Gulf of Mexico
Erie
Dee
Lake Erie
Charles Foster
Dake
Foster
Dutch Disavowal Aimed at London Letter Incident
The Netherkinds bax government directs the Dieteb minister in London to disavow responsibility for a letter sent to Mr. Krager by the al dant of we first chamber of ip the tates, signaling official denial of accountability in the matter.
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Haagne
Bax
Dieteb
London
Krager
Tates
Deadly Grade Crossing Crash in Pittsburg
The Cumberland accommodation train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad struck a United Traction car near Rankin, killing one man and badly injuring his wife and seriously injuring their baby. About a score of passengers suffered injuries. Separately Canton fire destroyed a Cleveland and Canton Brick kiln complex, causing about 46,900 in losses and an investigation into tramp sleeping near the kilns.
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Pittsburg
Cumberland
Baltimore and Oho
United Traction
Rankin
Canton
Cevelind and Canton Brick Company
Editorial on United States as world power
Berlin dispatch notes the National Zebra devoted its first page to an editorial about the United States as a world power. It highlights America's progress economically and politically and positions the nation in world affairs. The piece stresses the steady rise and influence of the United States in global events.
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America
Arope
Berlin
Zebrasy
United States
Ameren
Eilitorial
Ted Biates
Ballot Mixup Sparks Court Inquiry in Election Case
An Indiana county trial over Bolton versus Clark reveals a double- packed election return box. A package from Precinct Rd Linton township held papers from Precinct Roof in the same township, prompting questions how two precincts’ ballots appeared in one lot during testimony by County Clerk Wateron and other officials.
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Terre. Haute
Bolton
Chirk
Conty Commissioners
Wateron
Clark
Linton Township
Tragic Logansport Death Leads Off Mixed Local News
A veterinary surgeon from Wilnt Michigan Foster walked into a Logansport store Saturday night and used a revolver, killing himself after asking to see a cartridge. A note reading Tired of life booze was found. The issue also reports a brutal branding and torture of a boy in Cum ville, and the Osborne murder trial resulting in a manslaughter verdict. A demand for a new Knox county jail closes the roundup. Weather forewarns cold, with a brisk trend ahead.
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Ind
Dee
Foster
Wilnt
Mich
Tridge
Anto
Toronto
Chicago
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